Senior Financial Analyst – Manufacturing & Materials FP&A

Mercury Systems•Hudson, NH

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Processing Technologies Business Unit is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst focused on Manufacturing and Materials FP&A. The role serves as a strategic link between shop-floor operations and enterprise financial planning, partnering with Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, and executive leaders. It transforms transactional and operational data into financial models, clear business narratives, and actionable decisions. The analyst supports financial planning, forecasting, analysis, financial controls, and reporting for Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet statements in a high-growth, complex manufacturing environment in the aerospace and defense industry. The role supports teams across Andover, Massachusetts; Hudson, New Hampshire; Chantilly, Virginia; and Phoenix, Arizona, and reports to the Senior Director, Finance. The position consolidates and analyzes manufacturing, bill-of-materials, costing, supply-chain, inventory, and ledger data; develops executive dashboards and scalable financial models; and leads operating plans, forecasts, and variance analysis. It also provides financial insights for business reviews, identifies operational cost and process improvements, and helps establish consistent reporting and inventory governance across plant operations. The preferred work arrangement is hybrid, with a strong preference for the selected candidate to work from Phoenix, Arizona. Occasional in-office attendance outside the standard hybrid schedule may be required. Access to information subject to U.S. export regulations is restricted to individuals who meet applicable U.S. citizenship, residency, protected-individual, or government authorization requirements.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Supply Chain Management, Data Analytics, or a related quantitative field.
Typically 4 or more years of progressive experience in FP&A, Operations Finance, Plant or Manufacturing Cost Accounting, or Supply Chain Financial Analysis.
Expert modeling capabilities, including Power Query, dynamic arrays, complex multi-variable lookup matrices, scenario modeling, and sensitivity tables.
Demonstrated success building semantic models using DAX and Star Schema and developing published executive dashboards.
Hands-on experience with ERP systems.
Deep knowledge of standard costing, routings, absorption accounting, scrap allocation, and manufacturing P&L mechanics.
Inquisitive problem-solving skills, including independently investigating variances, engaging cross-functional teams, and driving process fixes.
Eligibility to access export-controlled information under applicable U.S. regulations, or eligibility to obtain required U.S. government authorizations.
Ability to attend occasional in-office meetings, execution activities, or team events outside the standard hybrid schedule.

Nice To Haves

Direct hands-on experience with Oracle.
Commercial manufacturing experience.
DoD program finance experience.
Ability or preference to work in a hybrid capacity from Phoenix, Arizona.

Responsibilities

Consolidate, synthesize, and automate datasets across manufacturing facilities, bills of materials, standard costing systems, and supply-chain logistics.
Extract, manipulate, and audit transactional, inventory, and cost-ledger data using Oracle ERP, Cloud ERP, Amazon Datalake, and Power BI.
Build and deploy interactive executive Power BI dashboards showing manufacturing metrics such as purchase price variance, scrap rates, plant throughput, and labor absorption.
Design and maintain scalable Excel financial models using Power Query, dynamic arrays, scenario managers, and advanced formulas.
Direct the Annual Operating Plan, quarterly updates, and monthly rolling forecasts for manufacturing plants, direct materials, freight, and conversion costs.
Analyze standard-versus-actual variances, including purchase price variance, material usage variance, labor efficiency, volume variance, and under- or over-absorption.
Partner with Procurement to track commodity price indices, supplier contract renegotiations, currency fluctuations, and macroeconomic inflation or deflation trends.
Monitor inventory turns, assess safety-stock thresholds, and model Excess and Obsolete reserves to optimize cash flow.
Translate manufacturing metrics and financial variances into executive summaries, visual bridge charts, and strategic narratives.
Prepare for and support Monthly Business Reviews with Plant Managers, Lines-of-Business VPs, and the CFO, communicating financial trajectory, risks, and opportunities.
Identify cost leakages, operational bottlenecks, and scrap anomalies, and partner with plant engineering on root-cause corrective actions.
Establish standardized reporting cadence, cost-tracking methodologies, and inventory governance across plant operations.
Support product execution and develop financial controls and processes to streamline Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet reporting.